Mark Seldis
Lecturer of Theatre Arts, College of Communication and Fine Arts Loyola Marymount University
Biography
Mark Seldis is Producing Director of The Ghost Road Company with whom he co-created and directed Excavate the Monster at 24th Street Theatre and Duck[t] Tape Soup at Shakespeare Festival/LA. Mark also produced the tour of Clyt at Home to Amherst, MA, the various incarnations of Ghost Road’s Four Dervishes, the ensemble’s Oresteia adaptation (including Orestes Remembered, Elektra, and Home Siege Home), Stranger Things, The Bargain and the Butterfly (including at SCR and in Warsaw), Asterion (including at The Getty Villa and in Wroclaw, Poland), Jocasta: A Motherf**king Tragedy, The Dry Years, Super Duper, and The Unraveling. In 2007, on behalf of Ghost Road, one of the Hub Partners, he helped coordinate the Los Angeles productions of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays/365 Days and co-directed Ghost Road's week of the play.
Mark has directed world premieres of Ken Urban’s plays Absence of Weather and Nibbler, and he directed one of The Car Plays for Moving Arts. From 2005-2007, he directed the LA Stage Alliance’s Ovation Awards Ceremony at the Orpheum Theatre. Mark was the Managing Director of The Actors’ Gang from 1990 to 2000 and produced over twenty of their plays, most memorably Hysteria, Mein Kampf, Euphoria, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella and Dreamplay. With the Gang he also co-directed Comings and Goings: an Evening of Beckett One-Acts and directed XXX Love Act, for which he won a Backstage West Garland Award for Best Direction. He produced Andromache for The Evidence Room and About Productions’ Vox and The Accidental Death of an Anarchist for New Crime Productions. He also works in film, having served as Unit Manager on BOB ROBERTS and Associate Producer on DEAD MAN WALKING and having produced the short film TURBANS for PBS. In 1999 Seldis co-founded The Edge of the World Theatre Festival and in 2000 co-created the L.A. History Project for Edgefest and helped curate the LAHP for the following eight years. Mark also served as Managing Director and Producer for The Actors’ Gang for ten years. He spent 16 years at The Music Center, first as Project Manager for Education, then as Program Manager for the Programming Department and served as Managing Director for the Ojai Playwrights Conference from 2018-2023. He is a recipient of the Lee Melville Award for Excellence in Los Angeles Theater and was an Associate Producer on the films DEAD MAN WALKING and BOB ROBERTS, as well as the short film TURBANS for PBS.
Mark has directed world premieres of Ken Urban’s plays Absence of Weather and Nibbler, and he directed one of The Car Plays for Moving Arts. From 2005-2007, he directed the LA Stage Alliance’s Ovation Awards Ceremony at the Orpheum Theatre. Mark was the Managing Director of The Actors’ Gang from 1990 to 2000 and produced over twenty of their plays, most memorably Hysteria, Mein Kampf, Euphoria, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella and Dreamplay. With the Gang he also co-directed Comings and Goings: an Evening of Beckett One-Acts and directed XXX Love Act, for which he won a Backstage West Garland Award for Best Direction. He produced Andromache for The Evidence Room and About Productions’ Vox and The Accidental Death of an Anarchist for New Crime Productions. He also works in film, having served as Unit Manager on BOB ROBERTS and Associate Producer on DEAD MAN WALKING and having produced the short film TURBANS for PBS. In 1999 Seldis co-founded The Edge of the World Theatre Festival and in 2000 co-created the L.A. History Project for Edgefest and helped curate the LAHP for the following eight years. Mark also served as Managing Director and Producer for The Actors’ Gang for ten years. He spent 16 years at The Music Center, first as Project Manager for Education, then as Program Manager for the Programming Department and served as Managing Director for the Ojai Playwrights Conference from 2018-2023. He is a recipient of the Lee Melville Award for Excellence in Los Angeles Theater and was an Associate Producer on the films DEAD MAN WALKING and BOB ROBERTS, as well as the short film TURBANS for PBS.
